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Sandra Oh And Andy Samberg Absolutely Smashed Their Opening Monologue At The Golden Globes

"Crazy Rich Asians is the first studio film with an Asian-American lead since Ghost in the Shell and Aloha".

by Joseph Earp  7 January 2019
Golden Globes Opening Monologue

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Water’s wet, the sky is blue, and forever baes Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg just crushed their Golden Globes opening monologue.

Yep, to the surprise of absolutely no-one, Oh and Samberg knocked the first challenge of their Golden Globes hosting duties out of the park, delivering a smart and funny set that highlighted positivity (and thirstiness) over all else.

Samberg and Oh’s monologue started with the pair rattling off a bunch of compliments to the assembled hotties, with Michael B. Jordan singled out for special praise.

The only real digs were dished out to Dick Cheney (no, seriously), and to Jim Carrey, who was unceremoniously booted out of the film section of the audience and made to sit with the TV folk up the back. Poor Jim!

Sure, Oh’s delivery was sometimes a little bit rough around the edges, but hey, the real thing that was clear from the start was her passion. She even instructed the cameras to cut away to her parents, who watched on with steely reserve (and a lotta love.)

It’s a fitting way to kick off the new year for a pair of performers that dominated 2018. Samberg’s excellent Brooklyn Nine-Nine survived a near-cancellation, only to bounce back more popular than ever, while Oh got her teeth into the role of a lifetime in Phoebe Waller Bridge’s caustic Killing Eve (one of our favourite shows of last year), finding herself showered in a rain of long-overdue plaudits.

Delivering a memorable awards ceremony speech is always a bit of a tightrope walk. After all, less successful hosts can sometimes stray too far into the territory of self-congratulation (the Oscars are particularly guilty of this, with speeches often pinning the success of entire social justice movements on the entertainment industry.)

Then, there are those who can go too far the other way. Although Ricky Gervais’ stint hosting the Golden Globes from 2010 to 2012 attracted a lot of attention, it was just an excuse for the shrill British comedian to do what we loves best: bully people.

But nah, Samberg and Oh would never — and they didn’t. The pair kept things on message, with Oh tearfully acknowledging Hollywood’s increasing diversity, and staying largely away from Donald Trump, as the pair promised they would.

Can they adopt me, please?